by Russell Worth | Feb 24, 2014 | Industrial Disease, News
The Deaf Law Centre has announced that it is to close on the 28th February following the cuts to legal aid. The service offered legal advice in sign language to Deaf people, who’d struggle to access a solicitor who can sign. In an announcement on their website,...
by Russell Worth | Feb 24, 2014 | Medical Negligence, News
A former exhibitions manager at the Natural History Museum has won more than £500,000 damages from the London Ambulance Service after paramedics arrived 17 minutes late to tend her dislocated knee. The incident had left Ceri Leigh, aged 50, suffering an acute form of...
by Russell Worth | Feb 21, 2014 | News, Personal Injury
A dispute between four local authorities over which of them must fund the lifelong care of a severely disabled young man has yielded authoritative guidance from the Court of Appeal on the vexed issue of exactly what constitutes a person’s ‘ordinary residence’....
by Russell Worth | Feb 17, 2014 | Accident Claims, News, Personal Injury
In a case which succinctly encapsulated the current state of the law on the vicarious liability of employers, an innocent customer received serious head injuries after he was savagely attacked by a petrol kiosk attendant on a supermarket forecourt has received the...
by Russell Worth | Feb 14, 2014 | News, Personal Injury
A tree surgeon who was terribly injured in a 50-foot fall from a dying conker tree has received a judge’s ‘enormous sympathy’ – but has failed in a multi-million-pound compensation claim against the National Trust. The young man was left permanently confined to...
